Denver: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and Denver Special Municipal Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Hickenlooper seat, class 2); U.S. Representatives CO-1 (open) and CO-6; Governor/Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket, open seat) and other statewide offices; Colorado Senate SD-31 and House HD-5 (City and County Building) plus other Denver legislative seats; RTD directors, CU regent, State Board of Education, judicial retention; and a Denver special (vacancy) election for Councilmember At-Large Seat B. No regular City and County of Denver offices — the next Denver municipal election is in April 2027..
Holding office23
the sitting council
On the ballot43
3 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Denver is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Colorado's 1st congressional district (City and County Building, the City and County Building); CO-1 covers ~99.8% of Denver and CO-6 a small southeast part (~0.2%) — Diana DeGette (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Johnston Elected | Mayor | Independent | City and County of Denver |
2
Auditor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy M. O'Brien ✉️ Elected | Auditor | Independent | city-wide | City and County of Denver |
3
Clerk and Recorder
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul López ✉️ Elected | Clerk and Recorder | Independent | city-wide | City and County of Denver |
4
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda P. Sandoval ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | City and County of Denver |
| Amanda Sawyer ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City and County of Denver |
| Chris Hinds ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 10 | City and County of Denver |
| Darrell Watson ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 9 | City and County of Denver |
| Diana Romero Campbell ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City and County of Denver |
| Flor Alvidrez ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 7 | City and County of Denver |
| Jamie Torres ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | City and County of Denver |
| Kevin Flynn ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | City and County of Denver |
| Paul Kashmann ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 6 | City and County of Denver |
| Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | City and County of Denver |
| Shontel M. Lewis ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 8 | City and County of Denver |
| Stacie Gilmore ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 11 | City and County of Denver |
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Council Member — At-Large Seat B
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Reyes | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Cynthia Diaz | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Gabriel Konkle | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Jake Browne | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Jeff Walker | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Julissa Soto | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Melissa Adriana Mejía | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Monica Martinez | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Raymon Anthony Doane | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
| Whitney Traylor | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large Seat B | Denver Elections Division |
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Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Polis Elected | Governor | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Eric Mulder | Governor Running | Libertarian | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Erik Underwood | Governor Running | Approval Voting | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Greg Lopez | Governor Running | — | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Jeff Peckman | Governor Running | Unity | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Phil Weiser | Governor Running | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Stephen T. Hamilton | Governor Running | American Constitution | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Victor Marx | Governor Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State |
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Lieutenant Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dianne Primavera Elected | Lieutenant Governor | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Frank Atwood | Lieutenant Governor Running | Approval Voting | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| George Washington Markert | Lieutenant Governor Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| James K Treibert | Lieutenant Governor Running | American Constitution | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Lesley Dahlkemper | Lieutenant Governor Running | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| T.J. Cole | Lieutenant Governor Running | Unity | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Taralyn Romero | Lieutenant Governor Running | — | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Wayne Harlos | Lieutenant Governor Running | Libertarian | Colorado Secretary of State |
8
State Representative — HD-5
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Valdez ✉️ Elected | State Representative | Democratic | Colorado General Assembly | |
| Johnnie W. Johnson | State Representative Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Justine Sandoval | State Representative Running | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State |
9
State Senator — SD-31
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Ball ✉️ Elected acclaimed | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Colorado General Assembly |
10
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael F. Bennet Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returns HTTP 403 | |
| John W. Hickenlooper Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returns HTTP 403 | |
| Adam Withrow | U.S. Senator Running | Unity | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Blake Huber | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Bob Chew | U.S. Senator Running | Forward | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Christopher Baum | U.S. Senator Running | Approval Voting | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Mark Baisley | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State |
11
U.S. Representative — CO-1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diana DeGette Elected | U.S. Representative | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Chad Humphrey | U.S. Representative Running | Libertarian | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Christy Peterson | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Critter Milton | U.S. Representative Running | Unity | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Melat Kiros | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Shimon Blau | U.S. Representative Running | — | Colorado Secretary of State |
12
U.S. Representative — CO-6
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Crow Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Jason Clark | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Meredith Ryan | U.S. Representative Running | Unity | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Patty McMahon | U.S. Representative Running | Libertarian | Colorado Secretary of State | |
| Samir Ezzeldin Witta | U.S. Representative Running | — | Colorado Secretary of State |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor, Auditor and Clerk and Recorder from https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Elected-Officials and each office's page; 12 sitting Council Members (Districts 1-11 and At-Large Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez) from 'Council Members' Websites & Contact Info' and each member's page, retrieved 2026-10-15. Denver has 13 council seats (11 district + 2 at-large); At-Large Seat B is VACANT: Sarah Parady resigned effective 2026-08-05 and council declared the vacancy the same day (city page). Seat A/Seat B labels come from a 2025 charter amendment (Denver Elections Division). Emails kept are the official @denvergov.org office addresses printed on each member's page; staff addresses not copied. Diana Romero Campbell's page says she serves as Council President.
- Next Denver municipal election: April 2027 (Mayor, Auditor, Clerk and Recorder, all 13 council seats), with a June 2027 runoff if needed. The Denver Elections Division 'Upcoming Elections' page says 'a Municipal Election is held every fourth April ... The next Denver municipal election will take place in 2027' — Denver's municipal elections are in April, not May. Exact date not printed on the pages read; the Clerk's media release reports 2027 Fair Elections Fund disbursements already under way.
- At-Large Seat B special (vacancy) election, 2026-11-03: the 10 candidates are from the official Denver 2026 general / special municipal sample ballot (final-2026-general-sample-ballot-engspa-2.pdf, Denver Elections Division), read by word coordinates under 'Councilmember At-Large - Seat B'. Non-partisan; no runoff; the winner serves to July 2027. A separate certified-candidate PDF for the vacancy election was not found on the Elections Division pages.
- Federal: U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Colorado table; no photos linked). U.S. Senators (Bennet, Hickenlooper) from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov not used; known 403). Hickenlooper's class-2 seat is on the 2026 ballot (verified on the SOS list and Denver sample ballot); Bennet's term runs to 2029.
- Districts: Census TIGERweb polygon for Denver city (place 0820000) sampled on a 200x200 grid (11,020 points, ~0.2 km spacing) against the 120th Congress districts; generalized geometry gave stray CO-7/CO-8 points that the Census geocoder put in CO-1, so CO-6 was re-sampled at full resolution (400x400 grid: 89 of 44,085 points, ~0.2%, around S Holly St / E Yale Ave) and two points confirmed by the geocoder. Result: CO-1 and CO-6 only — matching the two congressional contests on the Denver sample ballot. The City and County Building geocodes to CO-1, Colorado Senate 31 and House 5 (2026 layers). By the grid Denver is covered by 5 Colorado Senate districts (26, 31, 32, 33, 34) and 9 House districts (1-9); only the City and County Building's are recorded as people.
- State: Senator Matt Ball (SD-31) and Representative Alex Valdez (HD-5) from leg.colorado.gov member list and member pages (official coleg.gov emails as printed). Governor Jared Polis and Lt. Governor Dianne Primavera from the Secretary of State's official 2022 general-election abstract, because governor.colorado.gov did not respond and colorado.gov/governor and ltgovernor.colorado.gov returned HTTP 403 (not bypassed); their 2023-2027 term is a matter of that certified result, not a live roster.
- Candidates: Colorado Secretary of State '2026 General Election Official Candidate List' (HTML table; 'certified to the counties on September 4'), retrieved 2026-10-15. Captured: U.S. Senate, CO-1, CO-6, Governor, Lt. Governor, SD-31, HD-5. Excluded: certified write-ins (Write in? = Y: 3 for U.S. Senate, 3 for CO-1) and one withdrawn (struck-through) name in SD-35 (outside scope). Joint Governor/Lt. Governor tickets split into one row each, paired in notes. 'Unaffiliated' recorded as party null, partyShort 'Independent'. Cross-checked against the Denver sample ballot.
- Open seats on the ballot: CO-1 (DeGette not on the general list), Governor, Lieutenant Governor, HD-5 (Valdez), and Council At-Large Seat B (vacant). Incumbent-running: Hickenlooper (U.S. Senate), Crow (CO-6), Matt Ball (SD-31, unopposed — the only certified candidate).
- Robots/terms: denvergov.org (robots.txt read; no Disallow on the pages used; Terms of Use: the City 'retains copyright on all text, graphic images and other content' and bars redistribution/re-use without written permission — photos are linked only, never copied; names and offices are facts), denvervotes.org (redirects to denvergov.org), coloradosos.gov (robots allows /pubs/; privacy/legal disclaimer, no reuse restriction stated), leg.colorado.gov (robots allows member pages, disallows /rails/ and /active_storage/ where photos live — so no legislature photos linked), house.gov (allowed), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt; CC0), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (robots.txt returned a WAF 'Request Rejected' page; the REST query service answered normally). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). No rows are 'unofficial'.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Colorado Secretary of State — 2026 General Election Official Candidate List (certified to the counties September 4, 2026) 30
- City and County of Denver — Council Members' Websites & Contact Info 12
- Denver Elections Division — Sample Ballot for the 2026 General Election and Denver Special Municipal Election 10
- Colorado General Assembly — Legislators 2
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Colorado) 2
- Colorado Secretary of State — 2022 General Election official abstract, Governor/Lieutenant Governor 2
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returns HTTP 403 2
- City and County of Denver — Elected Officials; Mayor's Office 1
- City and County of Denver — Clerk & Recorder - Paul López 1
- City and County of Denver — Auditor's Office 1